LOWLIGHTS
• The Devils coughed up a 2-1 lead in the final minute for the second night in a row, and this time they lost in overtime. Preds C David Legwand scored with 10:8 seconds to go and the goalie pulled to force overtime, then Shea Weber won it for Nashville 1:29 into overtime, his second of the game.

• Legwand scored the tying goal not long after a sequence that included Devils G Cory Schneider’s terrible puck-handling night continuing with a scare behind his net.

• The Devils allowed a season-low 15 shots when blanking Nashville at home on Nov. 10. On Friday, the Preds were up 1-0 and had 10 shots in first 10 minutes of the game and had their 16th shot by the 5:28 mark of the second.

• Schneider made a terrible puck-handling blooper behind his net in the first period, and three seconds later Weber rocketed a slapper into the net at 6:42 of the first for a 1-0 Preds lead.

• Nashville came in having had two days off, while the Devils were playing their third game in four nights, and it looked that way early as Jersey got off to a slow start. Six minutes into the game, the Preds were up 8-2 in shots and had dominated puck possession.

• Schneider struggled playing another puck behind his net late in the first.

• The Devils had no shots on net in the second until the 7:29 mark on a redirect by RW Michael Ryder.

• Ryder’s shot was the only one during a bad power play in which the Devils allowed a 2 on 1 shorthanded break that just missed becoming a goal when Gabriel Bourque ripped a shot off the right post.

• Ryder was held without a goal for the 10th game in a row and was denied on a breakaway 1:20 into overtime.

• The Devils were down a goal and had been outplayed badly for a lot of the first half of the game before Elias scored from the left circle on a 30-foot wrister. It was bad goal allowed by Preds goalie Carter Hutton, who let a catchable shot that possibly was going wide hit off his glove and go in 13:00 into the second.

• Jagr’s legendary puck-handling ability and knack for the net almost singlehanded made it 2-1 Devils, as he circled the Nashville net, spun away from a couple of defenders and whipped a shot from the lower right circle short-side past Hutton, who probably should have stopped that one, too.

• Jagr’s goal was the 698th of his career. Two more and he’ll become the seventh player and first European to reach 700. The goal also gave Jagr 17 for the season, one more than Michael Ryder for the team lead.

• Jagr also assisted on Elias’ goal for his fourth two-point game in his last five. He leads the Devils with 48 points in 56 games.

• Travis Zajac also assisted on both the Devils’ second-period goals.

• Schneider overcame a shaky start to make some good saves to keep the game tied 1-1, first on a Nashville power play in the second. Later in the second, he robbed Ryan Ellis with a glove save and freeze on a one-timer from the right circle.

• The Devils’ PK, ranked second in the league, held the Preds power play, ranked 6th, to no shots during a second-period kill.

• With a goal and assist, Elias has four goals and eight points in his last six games.

• Elias was only the few Devils with a strong first period. The night after scoring his 16th career OT goal, Elias had three of the Devils’ nine shots in the opening period, including the only one on the power play.

• With the Preds leading 1-0 and dominating play, Devils RW Steve Bernier attempted to change momentum by delivering a big neutral-zone hit on Nashville C David Legwand 11:50 into the first.

• Bernier led the Devils with three hits.

• Ryane Clowe and Elias had five shots each to lead the Devils, who were outshot 33-26.

• The Devils registered just one shot and didn’t score on their only first-period power play, but the first unit kept the puck in Nashville’s zone for the first 65 seconds. Damien Brunner played the left point, Marek Zidlicky the right point and up front it was Zajac, Jagr and Elias.

EMPTY NETTERS
• The Devils lost D Anton Volchenkov to an undisclosed injury early in the second period.

• Rookie RW Mike Sislo was recalled up from the AHL for his second NHL stint, but was a healthy scratch. He was scoreless and a minus-1 in seven games from Jan. 3 to Jan. 14.

• D Eric Gelinas, a major power-play weapon but needing to clean up his defensive game, was assigned to AHL Albany on Friday. The rookie was on the ice for the Elias’ OT goal Thursday in Dallas, but he got just 2:50 of ice time as the Devils’ seventh defenseman, including none in the second and third periods.

• Zubrus returned in-game after breaking his nose in last Sunday’s outdoor game and on Friday he was back in the lineup after leaving Thursday’s game in the third period with a bruised left leg from blocking a shot by Trevor Daley.

The Devils had three more games before their 19-day break for the Olympics – home Tuesday against Colorado, home Friday against Edmonton and on the road Saturday against Washington.

• When Nashville scores at Bridgestone Arena, Tim McGraw pops up on the scoreboard in a Preds jersey singing his country anthem, “I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.” (His late father Tug McGraw, a star reliever for the Mets and Phillies, loved that song!)